Word: whir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hear conversation if exceedingly loud repercussions occur at the same time. Utilizing this principle, Dr. Byron E. Eldred of Manhattan has invented an ear trumpet. His apparatus consists of a box which, attached to an electric socket, shouts into the ear a large noise, part click, part scream, part whir, not unlike that of an electric train. At a recent meeting of the New York Otological Society, Dr. Eldred presented his invention. The society was skeptical...
Siegmund, the Walsung, loves his sister, Sieglinde. Hunding, husband of Sieglinde, fights Siegmund. Wotan sends Brünnhilde, his favorite Walkyrie, to turn the fight for Hunding. (Fierce are the Walkyries; they bear the shields of the warrior gods, and whir before them into battle...
...parades are infinitely more amusing than a mere collection of well-worn jungle beasts. Elks, Eagles, Masons, Knights of Columbus, of the Fiery Circle, W. C. T. U. S. P. C. A., and other initialed and braided orders of butcher, baker, and candlestick maker fill the head with a whir at the complexity and beauty of American civilisation. And who would dim the lusty torchlights of Republicans and Democrats...